NEW300-600-dataviz-schedule

COURSE SCHEDULE
This class schedule accompanies a longer syllabus that you should be sure to read. Due to the constantly evolving field of dataviz, this schedule is subject to change.

WEEK 1 – DATA BASICS

Tues 1/16 Class: Welcome!

About the class. See examples of amazing stories that can only be told by seeing visual data. Make your first data visualization as a group in class using Google Drive and Tabletop.js. We also walk through how to use the class blog.

Now that we’ve been inspired with great examples, let’s see some see examples of classic ethical failures using data visualization, like this: http://to.pbs.org/1lZe0lL, or this map of Ashley Madison registered users. and examples of generalizations that misinterpreted data. We review where to find public data and how to use Excel to “interview data” (sorting, filtering, normalizing).

Thursday 1/18: Finding and Working With Data

Guest: Jodi Upton, Knight Chair in Data and Explanatory Journalism.

Assignment 2: Find an interesting story from data at the New York State open data site. Create a chart in Infogr.am with data you find and embed it into the class blog along with a story about what the data tells us.

Thursday 2/15: Leaflet Maps

LYNDA.COM REQUIREMENT

Make sure you have taken a relevant Lynda.com online course and posted a blog entry about how you used what you learned to either improve one of your assignments, or to create a new visualization not covered in class. If you create a new visualization, be sure to embed it into the blog post. Be sure to post a link to the blog post into the Lynda.com Requirement assignment in Blackboard.

FINAL PROJECT

Use at least three of the data visualization tools we have used in class to create a multi-faceted story that you publish on the class blog. The data and topic should be different from examples and tutorials in your assignments. Feel free to use any of the tools listed here, too: http://www.creativebloq.com/design-tools/data-visualization-712402